Witness to the enormity of history, the power of people and events to shape our world and capture our attention as the calendar closed out on july, we relive, remember and relate to the accomplishments, the controversies, the iconic debuts and morethat all happened through the decades we begin with the weekend road trip. Its been an American Institution since henry ford first started cranking out model ts. But on a summer saturday in 1971, two americans went for a joyride of a different kind. Dale scott and jim irwin hopped behind the wheel of the first lunar rover and drove on the surface of the moon on july 31. 1098 ignition sequence on engines on. 54321. All engines running. Liftoff. We have liftoff at 9 34 am, Eastern Daylight Time when nasa launched apollo 15 into the morning sky, it was on its way to becoming the fifth moonlanding mission in barely over two years. But if blasting rockets towards another planet had started to become old hat, what apollo 15 was carrying with it awa
Day after day here we play witness to the enormity of history, the power of people and events to shape our world and capture our attention as the calendar closed out on july, we relive, remember and the controversies, the iconic debuts and morethat decades we begin with the weekend road trip. Its been an American Institution since henry ford first started cranking out model ts. But on a summer saturday in 1971, two americans went for a joyride of a different kind. Dale scott and jim irwin hopped behind the wheel of the first lunar rover and drove on the surface of the moon on july 31. 1098 ignition sequence on engines on. 54321. All engines running. Liftoff. We have liftoff at 9 34 am, Eastern Daylight Time when nasa launched apollo 15 into the morning sky, it was on its way to becoming the fifth moonlanding mission in barely over two years. But if blasting rockets towards another planet had started to become old hat, what apollo 15 was carrying with it away from earth would help creat
President hold talks in washington. And pope francis addresses the United Nations calling an end to conflict and more help for refugees. Hello, fifa president sepp blatter is facing criminal charges in switzerland. Being questioned by officials, it was months since he said he would step down are as fifa president. Lee well wellings has more. When the investigate would reach the president . The answer came on the day sepp blatter chaired an cumulative meeting. An executive committee meeting. Blatter is croouf is accused of mismanagement of funds. In the statement the swiss attorney general said in 2012, mr. Joseph blatter, signed a contract unfavorable to fifa. Blatter accused of misusing his position with that contract and one he signed in 2011 for work done a work later, that payment to michel platini. Election scheduled for february 26th. But platini was also questioned at fifa hq and is now embroiled in a sorry mess. A form of denial on behalf of blatter came from his lawyers. They
Inked a deal. Analysts say it could be worth billions of dollars annually. Red card for fifa for blatter and platini after an ethics probe into past payments. All right. And mentioning whats taking place from within fifa, seth blatter now expected to kick off a News Conference any minute now. Weve got some live pictures coming through from there. The conference arena. Thats taking place in zurich. Well bring you that live when it begins. Just glancing at the u. S. Futures, still a couple of hours away, but were being called a little bit higher on the open this morning following on for a pretty sharp selloff on friday. The dow suffering significantly on fridays trade with a bit of unwinding from some previous gains that otherwise had been made. Here in europe, of course, this morning were looking at just some slight gains on the stoxx europe 600. Our main European Equity markets also, indeed, reflecting this as we head into the shortened holiday week with christmas upon us. Ftse up by.
In delivering on what we said we would do. We cant control how mr. Putin thinks, but what we can do is say to mr. Putin, if you continue on the path of arming separatists with heavy armaments that evidence suggests may have resulted in 300 innocent people on a jet dying and that violates International Law and undermines the territorial integrity and sovereignty of ukraine, then youre going to face consequences that will hurt your country. And there was a lot of skepticism about our ability to coordinate with europeans for a strong series of sanctions. And each time we have done what we said we would do, including this week when we put in place sanctions that have an impact on key sectors of the russian economy, their energy, their defense, their financial systems. It hasnt resolved the problem yet. I spoke to mr. Putin this morning, and i indicated to him, just as we will do what we say we do in terms of sanctions, well also do what we say we do in terms of wanting to resolve this issu